#common descent

It's Karoo Supergroup time!

According to cladistics, we users of tumblr are all fish

Cladistics is a system used to describe relationships between organisms while skirting around the labels of taxonomic classification. Instead of using the group terms of class, order, family, genus, etc., ancestral groups are all clades. Everything within an ancestral group—everything descended from a particular ancestor—is within that ancestral clade. For example, the entire kingdom of plants is a clade, and all the species of prairie grasses are also a clade.

Organisms are divided into clades based on differences in features, paying particular attention to the order in which their features evolved. For instance, skinks that give live birth wouldn’t be in a clade with cats which excludes egg laying vertebrates, because skinks and cats evolved live birth separately. However, mammals that give live birth are in the same clade as platypuses because they share a common ancestor which had three ear bones and produced milk before mammals evolved live birth.

We creatures of the internet are all within the clade Osteichthyes (ahs-tee-IC-thees)—we are descended from bony fish. Therefore, cladistically, we are fish.

Need more lime??

So what were the purple fruits good for?

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Oh no. Not more drones.

And we running

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I don’t like the sound of that beeping.

We still alive? For now??

Nnn. I don’t like this. I don’t like it at all.

What has Greer heard?

People??

Tf??

They speak English??

What even is happening here??

Ancestors??

I’m sorry, whaaattt?

Oh. Eli… has a point.

I’d be a bit freaked tbh.

Testament??

Pfft.

???

Oh dear… two countries?? Named after Rush and Young?

Rush isn’t impressed with all the bowed heads…

Lol. Pfft. Rush as a demon. That’s hilarious.

“Many Futurans worship him like a god.” “We won’t tell him that.”

Um…

Well shit.

I just had a funny thought. Wouldn’t it be awkward if the people from Novus were the ones who created the drones… and then we all died.

Other TJ had her baby? Well, a baby.

Eli had kids??

Um… what was that? Please tell me it’s not a Volcano… well fuck, it’s a drone!!

I’m beginning to become more and more sure that the drones are from Novus.

Well shit… the gate is fucked…

I’m telling you, it wouldn’t be impossible for the drones to be linked to Novus!

“I would like to say no.”

Morse code!

“How do you know?” A shuttle appears. Make that two!

Dust and Ash? Cold? Oh no… nuclear winter. A supervolcano must have gone off or something. A water-volcano at the very least, maybe even two or three.

See. See, I know stuff. I know volcanoes. I live in terror of Yellowstone going up.

“Millions of people lived here… where did they all go?”